Tabs

Tabs have revolutionized music in general but especially Rock music due to the fact that it mainly uses guitar. What it has done is taking anybody with any base knowledge of how a guitar works can now learn any song they want. Using the internet to search your favorite artist and song you can simply copy the tabs and then play.

In order to play well known songs in the past you had to be able to read music. Or have someone teach you from first hand. Both ways can be a pain in the ass. Music takes a while to learn. Almost like an entirely new language. Even if you decide to stick with learning it it is always slow at first. Playing one note at a time and sounding like a two year old trying to talk. 

Tabs on the other hand is like a visual grid of the guitar. With just numbers instead of notes. Telling you which frets to place your fingers on. This allows people to quickly pick up and memorize songs. And on top of it you can play any of your favorite solos just by reading tabs.

This is an example of Tabs. They might not make sense but to a person that plays guitar they make all the sense in the world.

These in particular just show how to play some basic chords for a song.

Sheet music looks more like this and would take months of studying to be able to even guess what it means on a guitar

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